Motherboard and GPU for £150?

[cragfinman]

Basically I have a simply question. I want to upgrade my graphics card and motherboard within a budget of £150 so I was wondering what's the best I should go for?

My current plan is:

HD4830 (£90)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151393

and an MSI p43 (£60)
http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductID=833276&source=froogle

Anyone got any better ideas/advice?

Thanks in advance.

 

[outlw6669]

Welcome to the forums!

Please post what you have now so we can better judge what would be a good upgrade for you.

In any case, avoid MSI motherboards.
They are low quality pieces of junk.
Try to locate an ASUS or Gigabyte motherboard if possible.

 

[outlw6669]

Ya must be pretty lucky zip, every MSI board I have ran has either failed or had major issues after 6 months.
The vast majority of the time, a quality ASUS board will tromp all over any MSI product especially when overclocking.
I agree that Gigabyte makes great products though.

 

[cragfinman]

My current system is...a Dell Dimension 3100 (cry).

I already have a new case and PSU ready so I just need a new motherboard and graphics card which I will put in that, and I will put in the rest of the components from my Dell. These are a Pentium 4 @3ghz (this will be the next thing to upgrade but not for a couple of months), 2 sticks of DDR2 1gb ram, dvd writer, 80gig sata HD, 250gig IDE HD. I have a 21" monitor and plan on gaming in 1280x1024. I think that's everything.

I was recommended the motherboard by someone at Guru3d, I will prolly stick with it unless anyone else has a good reason not too? It's winning 2-1 at the moment

Thanks